YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to the Texas Twostepper we've learned that notorious egomaniac, publicity hound, sports commentator, reality television star (Deion & Pilar: Prime Time Love), and retired professional athlete Deion Sanders and his wifeyPilar have listed their farm/estate in Prosper, TX with an asking price of $21,000,000.

Not being familiar with much in the way of the manly sports, Your Mama had to take to the internets to figure out who this Deion Sanders person is. Our brief research showed that not only did the man play professional baseball he also played professional football for the Atlanta Falcons, the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys who in 1995 paid the well-built corner back $35,000,000 for a seven year contract that included a staggering $12,999,000 signing bonus. He later, according to the interweb, played with the pigskin for the Washington Redskins and finally the Baltimore Ravens before hanging up his cleats. Football players wear cleats, right?

Deion and Pilar's property sits 10 or 20 long miles north of the Dallas metro-plex on more than 100 acres of flat lands in picayune Prosper, TX. Now children, we don't know eh-nee-thing about real estate in North Texas, but we have a hard time imagining there are many moguls or oil tycoons looking to drop twenty some million clams on a house in teeny-tiny and not particularly prosperous Prosper, TX where we can assure you there isn't much in the way of businesses that cater to Maybach owners and Gucci lovers.

Listing information shows Mister Sanders' sprawling mega-mansion of indeterminate and indiscriminatearchitectural style measures a titanic 29,122 square feet of glossy marble floors, soaring ceilings, colossal crystal chandeliers and some of the most disturbing drapery Your Mama has seen in a very long time. The house is so humongous that the able bodied Mister Sanders often gets around on one of those Rascal scooters that are more commonly used by the old, the infirm, the physically decrepit and apparently, the lazy.

According to listing information, the multi-winged monster mansion contains 10 bedrooms including a first floor master bedroom suite with a sitting room that spins like a damn turn table, a large, round and orgy friendly bed, more smoked glass and black lacquer than we recommend be in one place at one time, a two story walk-in closet, kitchen, a behemoth bathroom with a garden tub (whatever that is) and a private 2-car attached garage separate from the 10 or 12 other garage spaces that house Mister Sanders extensive collection of tricked out whips located at the opposite end of the house.

Listing information also shows there are 9 full and 4 half bathrooms which our bejeweled abacus shows adds up to an unlucky thirteen terlits. Our tyrannical and seriously superstitious house gurlSvetlana would demand that Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter either add or remove a bathroom before she'd even step across the threshold because she refuses to enter a house with 13 of anything.

There are, according to one listing we located, multiple staircases, an elevator, 5 fireplaces, 3 dining areas and 7 living areas including a marble floored, hotel lobby sized living room featuring funeral home style curtains. The vast and seriously dated kitchen complex includes maple cabinets, marble floors, stainless steel appliances and black counter tops and accents. Other rooms include a family room with 10 tee-vees and 2 security monitors, a library, a solarium, a home gym, office, billiard room, a barber shop and something called a "Hall of Fame Gallery." There are probably about a dozen other rooms for various uses we can not even fathom and there is a detached guest house in the back for all those who think 10 bedrooms in the mega-sized main house is not enough space when it comes to shacking up the in-laws.

Outdoor and recreational facilities include a multi-level movie theater, an indoor swimming pool and spa with some of the ass ugliest swagged drapery we have ever had the displeasure of witnessing with our own eyes, a two-lane bowling alley, an indoor basketball court, two adjacent outdoor swimming pools including a lagoon style number with a concrete island in the middle, a party sized outdoor spa, a 12-acre lake stocked with fish, equestrian facilities, pasture lands...breathe, breathe, breathe...a sport court, children's playground, sunken trampoline, batting cage, a full sized damn football field (with goal posts), a lighted tennis court and a gargantuan game room modeled after a Dave & Busters which, much to Your Mama's horror, is some sort of restaurant, arcade, sports bar and gambling parlor franchise.

We can't imagine why Mister and Missus Sanders, who have three young children together and two more teenagers from Mister Sanders' previous marriage, would want to up and sell this self-contained estate that while depressing to Your Mama's delicate decorative sensibilities is surely a resort-like wonderland for pre-teens, toddlers and adult men who do not want to grow up.

For a more in depth peep at Deion's digs check this out but Your Mama recommends y'all get yerself a nerve pill and pour some booze down yer gullet first.

The big challenge here is finding something to like. Thought I would fail, but I will give the architect credit for this -- from a distance it doesn't look like a 30,000 square foot house, and that means he or she was doing something right.

There is simply too much to take into consideration trying to wrap my brain around this house and property, so I won't even try. I will say that 40,000 sqft, 100 acres, and an integrated complex with almost every sport known to man represented in real life scale is ALOT to eventually decide you've changed your mind about. Due it's rather remote and not particularly desirable location, this home is exempt from my usual criticism for hoisting an expensive house onto the open market at top dollar without bothering to update it because I can't imagine the property selling for much more than land value so why bother. What a waste.

And Bentley, you are the best. I wish I could have a consistent persona here (I'm always anon, because I often have inside knowledge of some of this stuff) just so you'd know who was complimenting you, as I so often admire your posts (and other's here as well).

Please Mama warn the unsuspecting children right up front when you are going to put up something so unsettling so we'll know to head straight to the medicine cabinet for a ginormous nerve pill prior to getting started.

There really is nothing to say about this house except...no, nothing. It's beyond words! Except this, is it just me, or did I spot in that bizarre ass kitchen, an office water dispenser set up against the wall? I mean, what the f*ck, you couldn't afford to have filtered water piped in to your huge big pile of steaming architectural poo?

I'm off to find a ginormous nerve pill and a tall pitcher of some of Mama's gin and tonics!

JB in Silver Lake, the office water cooler in the kitchen is no doubt intended to allow Mr. Sanders to quench his thirst without having to dismount from the Rascal scooter he uses to navagate this home's vast expanse of square footage. The Rascal scooter idea really floors me. When even a top athlete gets tired of moving around his own home without mechanical assistance, clearly an architectural line has been crossed. omg, these train-wreck houses are SO much fun to dissect, lol

Such vitriol! I suspect all this negativity is fallout from the recent gay marriage fracas the chilun spent so much time on. This house is exquisitely designed and furnished and Mr. Sanders will almost certainly have the last laugh once Victoria Gotti closes on the property..........but seriously.......that video was like chewing on tin foil with a mouth full of fillings.

I bet he was terribly proud of this monstrosity when he first moved in. Probably still is. Why is he selling? Don't athletes usually end up with their fortunes swiped by fake investment advisors, etc. Not saying that has happened in his case, but who knows? I don't.

For those who think it impossible to live in a pile like this out in nowhere, I think one should recall that many an English aristocrat with tons of pounds to spend built just as big a pile (more classical of course in style) out in nowhere in the UK. Sandringham is out in the country as is Balmoral and many other aristocratic digs. Vast mansions don't have all to be in Bel Air. Still....Norfolk is a bit cozier than the Texas plains.

There isn't a thing I can add that hasn't already been said - but Deion "Prime Time" Sanders has lived in the Dallas area for a long time and this ostentatious pile doesn't surprise me one bit. He royally pissed off his neighbors in a previous home when, pleading privacy and security issues because of his "celebrity" status, he was granted a variance to install gates at each entrance to his circular driveway (deed restrictions didn't allow them) since he supposedly had strangers ringing his doorbell at all hours wanting autographs, blah, blah, blah. Well, he put gates up alright - big gaudy ones that had "Prime Time" written on them in gigantic gold cursive script. Living nearby, I saw them and they made the entry gates to Graceland look understated. Needless to say, the neighbors were horrified.

There is absolutely NO market for a house at this price point way out in Prosper.

Ok seriously kiddies, i gotta say, both Mama's and the reader's comments made me laugh out loud. i actually teared up laughing so hard by your comments. and i completely agree with everything said, its beyond the pale of just about anything Mama has ever shared with us in this blog.

Mama, you need more TV exposure to share your words of insight. please take heed to the immortal words of Norma Desmond... "You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!..." Praise Jeebus!

I am not a religious person but after viewing a post such as this I like to imagine the owner standing at the pearly gates, with god's representative gesturing to his macbook air and saying, "Did you design, build and inhabit this structure? Yes? Well, I hope you like it hot, hunny."

You know what though, Yeah, it is terrible. It's like George Jefferson moved to Texas in the early 90's...

But, you know what--when you think about all the damn sports courts, bowling alleys, football fields etc., and there are more...it seems like if you were a billionare or something you would buy this place, just for kicks and say: "Hell no, I didn't build this, Dion Sander's did and I scooped it up for 20 mil to get all this fun". Really, you could have alot of fun in this house for no money. 100 acres, multiple pools etc. I could in no way put down 150mil for Candy Land. That's just too much for many reasons. With this home, you get 10 times more fun for 15% of the price--the listing agent should def market it from this standpoint.

I would buy a sensible house somewhere if I was Bill Gates and just have this as my trashy party pad.

"It has everything one could ask for--an extra stairway for the left-handed, plenty of room in the driveway for pottery storage..." = AMAZING!

Seriously, though, the comparison to Stately Homes in the UK is a stretch. Those houses were built on thousands of acres of manorial farmland, not the lunar landscape of Prosper, TX.

12:20, you make a good point. However, you'd still have to live in that, thing. If you have the dough, build something with a sense of scale, taste, and just a hint of class, then trip it out with all the amusement park shit behind hedges, over knolls, under-fucking-ground, etc...

What is lacking here is landscaping. Deion needs, more than a gay decorator, a new Capability Brown to create forest glades and the like. If the place were lushly landscaped, it would not be so bad. It is not exactly a "lunar landscape" if you look at Google Earth. There is quite a bit of housing around in the area. Anyhoo it is touching to see him bouncing around on the beds like the big dumb kid he really is.

I would like to see the place, with all its amenities, become the Texas campus for the Andre Agassi school. The only similarity to UK stately homes is that the place is large enough to convert into a school and already has the sports facilities. Not even Capability Brown could save this place as a high end home.

Too bad Anna Nicole is no longer with us...perhaps if she had received a generous settlement from her deceased husbands estate...she was a Texan...I bet Bobby Trendy could have decorated this beautifully.

in case any of the chirren are interested and have not seen this yet, this is the 7 million dollar spread tony and eva are building here in san antonio. San Antonio, unlike Prosper, has an Ann Taylor, Saks, Nieman Marcus, Thai food, sushi,Starbucks,Armani Exchange, a a Miele store, a symphony, several art musuems, plenty of gay bars, and the top rated restaurant in Texas, La Reve.Prosper recently did get a quickie mart and a Sonic Drive in, though.

We actually just drove past the Deon McMansion yesterday while looking at homes in Prosper. It's actually in a booming area that is literally 20 minutes from Dallas (well, it was until the economy came to a screaming halt) - so just selling the property for the land value would probably STILL bring a pretty penny. And the house doesn't look that bad from the road, fyi - just kind of out of place.

I felt kinda sad for Deion. He is clearly crazy about his family, and there's something endearing about how amazingly tasteless his house is, and yet unlike so many other slebs' man caves etc it's very obviously a family HOME.

Yes we can be prissy about his gauche taste in this and that, and laugh about the early 90s nightclub feel of much of the decor, but he loves it, and whoever buys it is going to drive a hard bargain to pay for the total refurb.

Prosper has several ex and current pro athletes living there. Randy White, Bill Bates, Tori Hunter, etc. I live in nearby Plano and thinking of building in Prosper. Lots of new high end shopping centers coming in the near future.

Isn't the saying in real estate "location, location, location,?" So WHY would anyone invest such a large sum of money AND bother living in an over-the-top luxurious home in a town that the author/real estate agent/enthusiast describes as a "not so prosperous Prosper, TX," when they have the capability to live ANYWHERE in the country/Texas? I mean moderate over-the-top in a well-to-do town, or megamansion over-the-top in a town that doesn't seem to cater really to "Maybach owners and Gucci lovers"? You take your pick. I mean considering what's being said in the article, how would he EVER stand to gain even a fraction of a profit if/when they sale their home? Oh well....in the end, it's not my house and it's not my worry.

To "Adventures in Newlywed,"....this is no McMansion....this is a MEGAMANSION. McMansions are a coined term for MINImansions/huge homes (3,000 sq feet minimum)that are usually mass produced in new/newer developments, or awkwardly placed in exhisting developments. But maybe if it were a McMansion, it would have a better chance at getting sold :-) Because I think FEW people are going to be able to use all that house in their area.

I'll say it like Beyonce, HE's gotta ah huge EGOooo such ah huge EGOoooo. He was jus doin his best to lett the world know he can back it up. On the real, they should denote the house to an organization for abused women and children or create a non-profit.